[lbo-talk] Wherefore art thou, Megafauna? (human predation)

[Chris Doss]

But, once again, African megafauna are not wary, but aggressive, at least until they have had personal experience with guns. And Africa had no extinction event. Question: Have any societies in recorded history had a habit of regularly hunting large animals at all? (not counting whaling)

--- On Fri, 12/26/08, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Also, note that Asia, like Africa was
> home to ancient man for an extended period of time, in which
> native wildlife could have co-evolved and developed the
> disposition and wariness to avoid being extirpated.
> Primitive representatives of the genus Homo lived from
> present day Georgia to Java many hundreds of thousands of
> years before they arrived in the New World a mere 11,000
> years ago.